June 27

is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 187 days remaining.

Events

678 - Saint Agatho begins his reign as a Catholic Pope.
1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain.
1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
1743 - War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally led troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
1759 - General James Wolfe starts siege of Quebec.
1806 - The British capture Buenos Aires.
1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr., murdered along with his brother, Hyrum, at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
1867 - The Bank of California is created.
1893 - Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
1898 - The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
1950 - The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
1953 - Joseph Laniel becomes Prime Minister of France.
1954 - The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1957 - Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in Louisiana and Texas.
1966 - The first broadcast of Dark Shadows is aired on ABC-TV.
1967 - The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.
1969 - Stonewall riots begin in New York city.
1974 - U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R..
1977 - France grants independence to Djibouti.
1979 - Muhammad Ali announces his retirement from boxing.
1980 - A commercial DC-9 (Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870) crashes near Ustica, Italy, killing 81
1984 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Albert Einstein Peace Prize.
1985 - Route 66 ceases to be an official U.S. highway.
1986 - The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in Nicaragua v. United States.
1988 - 59 are killed and 55 are injured as a runaway train in Gare de Lyon, France plows into a packed rush-hour train.
1991 - Slovenia, after declaring independence two days previous, is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War.
1998 - Opening of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Malaysia.
2001 - International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
2005 - AMD files broad antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations.

Births

1040 - King Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095)
1350 - Manuel II Palaeologus, Eastern Roman Emperor
1462 - King Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
1550 - King Charles IX of France (d. 1574)
1696 - William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier (d. 1759)
1717 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (d. 1799)
1838 - Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)
1846 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish independence fighter (d. 1891)
1850 - Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-born author (d. 1904)
1869 - Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist and feminist (d. 1940)
1869 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
1870 - Frank Rattray Lillie, American zoologist and embryologist (d. 1947)
1880 - Helen Keller, American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)
1882 - Eduard Spranger, German philosopher, psychologist, and educator (d. 1963)
1884 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (d. 1962)
1888 - Antoinette Perry, New York Stage Director, Tony Award named for her (d. 1946}
1913 - Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (d. 1993)
1923 - Jacques Berthier, French liturgical composer (d. 1994)
1924 - Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (d. 2003)
1924 - Bob Appleyard, English cricketer
1925 - Doc Pomus, American musician and composer (d. 1991)
1927 - Bob Keeshan, American actor (d. 2004)
1928 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (d. 1995)
1930 - Ross Perot, American billionaire and politician
1931 - Charles Bronfman, Canadian industrialist
1931 - Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 - Anna Moffo, American soprano (d. 2006)
1935 - Laurent Terzieff, French actor
1941 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (d. 1996)
1942 - Bruce Johnston, American singer/songwriter, member of The Beach Boys
1942 - Frank Mills, Canadian pianist and composer
1943 - Rico Petrocelli, Major League baseball player
1949 - Vera Wang, American fashion designer
1951 - Mary McAleese, President of Ireland
1955 - Isabelle Adjani, French actress
1956 - Heiner Dopp, German field hockey player
1958 - Magnus Lindberg, Finnish composer
1959 - Clint Boon, English musician (Inspiral Carpets)
1959 - Dan Jurgens, American comic book writer and artist
1959 - Lorrie Morgan, American country music singer
1961 - Margo Timmins, Canadian folk-rock singer (Cowboy Junkies)
1962 - Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Hong Kong actor
1962 - Michael Ball British singer
1963 - Meera Syal, English comedian, writer, singer, journalist, and actress
1963 - Johnny Benson, American NASCAR driver
1964 - Chuck Person, basketball player
1966 - J.J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
1967 - Sylvie Fréchette, French Canadian synchronized swimmer
1968 - Pascale Bussières, French Canadian actress
1970 - Jim Edmonds, baseball player
1970 - Vitamin C, American singer
1971 - Robert Earl Davis, Originator of Screw Music
1975 - Tobey Maguire, American actor
1975 - Daryle Ward, baseball player
1977 - Raúl, Spanish footballer
1977 - Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footbaler
1978 - Stefan Arason, Icelandic composer
1979 - John Warne, American musician (Relient K, formerly of Ace Troubleshooter)
1980 - Kevin Pietersen, English cricketer
1983 - Alsou, Russian singer
1985 - Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
1985 - Nico Rosberg, German Race car driver
1986 - Drake Bell, American actor and musician
1988 - Kate Ziegler, American swimmer
1991 - Madylin Sweeten, American actress

Deaths

1149 - Raymond of Antioch
1162 - Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
1458 - King Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
1574 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511)
1603 - Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop, writer, and diplomat (b. 1539)
1627 - John Hayward, English historian
1655 - Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1598)
1672 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (b. 1597)
1720 - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
1794 - Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
1794 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715)
1829 - James Smithson, English scientist, financial bequest led to the founding of the Smithsonian Institution (b. 1765)
1831 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
1839 - Prince Milan Obrenović II of Serbia (b. 1819)
1844 - Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (murdered) (b. 1800)
1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr. American founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (murdered) (b. 1805)
1920 - Adolphe-Basile Routhier, French Canadien lyricist (O Canada) (b. 1839)
1944 - Milan Hodža, Slovak politician, champion of regional integration in Europe (b. 1878)
1954 - Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1957 - Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (b. 1909)
1960 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)
1970 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
1991 - Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (murdered) (b. 1953)
1996 - Cubby Broccoli, American film producer (b. 1909)
1999 - George Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (b. 1919)
2001 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b. 1914)
2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (b. 1925)
2002 - John Entwistle, English bassist (The Who) (b. 1944)
2004 - George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)
2004 - Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968)
2005 - Shelby Foote, American author and historian of the A Narrative series (b. 1917)
2005 - John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946)

Holidays and observances

National HIV Testing Day in United States
National Veterans' Day in the United Kingdom ^*
Stonewall Day (date of many gay pride celebrations, including those in New York City, San Francisco, Toronto, and Madrid)

Liturgical feasts

?movable? Our Lady of Perpetual Assistance

External links

BBC: On This Day

June 26 - June 28 - May 27 - July 27 -- listing of all days

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Events

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Deaths

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